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Last March, NASA's Dawn spacecraft made history when it became the first mission to ever orbit a dwarf planet.<p>Before Dawn, the best images we had of the dwarf planet Ceres were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in the early 2000s from a distance of 257 million miles away. And about the only thing …

Many hopefuls have signed up for a one-way ticket to the red planet. But if they aren't prepared, the trip may be a short one.<p>We're on our way to Mars. NASA has a plan to land astronauts on its surface by the 2030s. Private spaceflight companies like SpaceX have also expressed interest in starting …

A Cambridge professor this week declared that intelligence is the first thing men look for in a woman. If only that was how the male brain worked, says Martin Daubney<p>Remember that old, nudge-nudge pub conundrum – a question also posed inappropriately by squiffy fathers-in-law while carving the …

A Canadian tourist in town for the Kentucky Derby was shot to death while fighting off three people who robbed him at random during a crime spree amid the festivities of the famed horse race, police said Monday.<p>Three people have been arrested in the killing late Saturday, and police said the trio …

When it was revealed that students at Jefferson High School in South Los Angeles and other schools were being assigned to "classes" in which nothing was actually taught, many people wondered how this could happen. Isn't it against the law to stick kids in fake classes and deprive them of basic …

Cognitive scientist Guy Claxton says erasers should be banned from classrooms<p>Erasers are an ‘instrument of the devil' and should be banned from classrooms because they encourage children to feel ashamed about mistakes, a King’s College visiting professor says.<p>Guy Claxton, who is also a cognitive …